Disabled people

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Services

1. Benefits calculators

   Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

2. Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

   Check if you're eligible for a Blue Badge and apply or renew

3. Carer's Allowance

   Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700.

4. Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

   Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility

5. Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

   Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment

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Guidance and regulation

1. The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) toolkit
   • Detailed guide
   • 19 July 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
2. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers
   • Guidance
   • 30 September 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
3. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) handbook
   • Guidance
   • 6 December 2018
   • Department for Work and Pensions
4. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) changes
   • Guidance
   • 15 April 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
5. Easy read: Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
   • Guidance
   • 22 May 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions

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News and communications

23 April 2020 — Press release

Adult social care recruitment care campaign launched to boost workforce

Department of Health and Social Care

1. Regional Stakeholder Network to give disabled people a stronger voice
   • 2 April 2020
   • Disability Unit
   • News story
2. Supporting disabled people through the coronavirus outbreak
   • 31 March 2020
   • Disability Unit
   • Correspondence
3. Next step for new service for benefit assessments announced
   • 2 March 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Press release
4. Taking multiple medicines? Support the Yellow Card scheme by reporting suspected side effects
   • 17 February 2020
   • Department of Health and Social Care and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. Coronavirus and the social impacts on those with a disability in Great Britain
   • 24 April 2020
   • Office for National Statistics
   • Official statistics
2. PIP administrative exercise: progress on cases cleared, at 14 June 2019
   • 2 January 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Research
3. Domiciliary Care Services for Adults in Northern Ireland (2019)
   • 18 December 2019
   • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
   • Official statistics
4. Being disabled in 2019
   • 2 December 2019
   • Office for National Statistics
   • Official statistics
5. Disability pay gaps in the UK: 2018
   • 2 December 2019
   • Office for National Statistics
   • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

1. How should DWP involve disabled people in changing how it works?
   • 23 March 2020
   • Department for Work and Pensions and Social Security Advisory Committee
   • Closed consultation
   • Date closed 06 April 2020
2. Learning disability and autism training for health and care staff
   • 5 November 2019
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Consultation outcome
   • Date closed 27 April 2019
3. Disabled people’s rights: the UK’s 2019 report on select recommendations of the UN periodic review
   • 14 October 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions and Closed organisation: Office for Disability Issues
   • Policy paper
4. Global Disability Summit - Charter for Change
   • 4 March 2019
   • Department for International Development
   • Policy paper
5. Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: easy read
   • 31 January 2019
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme: annual review 2018 to 2019
   • 6 November 2019
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Corporate report
2. Disability, wellbeing and mental health support in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office: 2019 report
   • 14 June 2019
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Corporate report
3. Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme: annual review 2017 to 2018
   • 29 November 2018
   • Department for Work and Pensions
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for Work & Pensions
2. Department of Health & Social Care
3. Public Health England
4. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
5. Department for Transport

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1. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
2. HM Revenue & Customs
3. Department for International Development
4. Government Equalities Office
5. Disability Unit
6. Cabinet Office
7. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
8. Department for Education
9. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
10. Companies House
11. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
12. HM Passport Office
13. Independent Case Examiner
14. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
15. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
16. Ministry of Justice
17. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

1. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
2. Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
3. Innovate UK
4. Social Security Advisory Committee
5. Student Loans Company

Explore sub-topics

1. Benefits and financial help
2. Carers
3. Disability equipment and transport
4. Disability rights